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State of Virginia
Country of Alexandria to wit:
I do solemnly swear that I will support the Constitution of the United States, and the laws made in pursuance thereof, as the supreme law of the land, any thing in the constitution and laws of the State of Virginia, or in the ordinances of the Convention which assembled at Richmond on the thirteenth day of February, eighteen hundred and sixty one, to the contrary notwithstanding; and that I will uphold and defend the Government of Virginia as restored by the Convention which assembled at Wheeling on the eleventh day of June, eighteen hundred and sixty-one; and that I have not, since the first day of January, eighteen hundred and sixty-four, voluntarily given aid or assistance, in any way, to those in rebellion against the government of the United States, for the purpose of promoting the same. So help me God.

William Ayre of Fairfax
Sworn to before me this 13th day of May 1865
Lewis M Henry J.P.
Virginia to wit

J.F. Richardson Clerk of the County Court of Fairfax County in the state aformntd. do hereby Certify that William Ayre stands charged upon the Comr Books of the County with a tract of land described as lying on the waters of Great Rocky Run containing 132 Acres, that the title to the said tract is in the said William Ayre.
Given under my hand this 18 July 1867
J.F. Richardson

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